So I went to the student groups / club fair,

[kyrasantae]

being careful not to come in contact with the choir peoples peopling the choir booth. As I finished up my business at the fair and was about to leave, I notice a guy sitting under a black and white poster reading "Musicians' Club" which was being completely dwarfed by the choir booth right next to it.

I know about this club; it's mostly just a social group that gets together and does... musician-like stuff. I hadn't joined this group in the past because it felt too rock/jazz/stuff-oriented rather than classically-oriented, but now I knew it could get me some desperately-needed connections and experiences. I grit my teeth and walked up, waving a brief hello to the choir peoples at the choir peoples booth (and interrupting a below-mentioned fevered pitch, oops).

The poor guy looked so lonely under his understated poster; I asked where his partner was (booths are usually manned by at least two people...).

"Just me today, my partner-in-crime is out of town."

I pick up the pen by the mailing list sign-up sheet that only had one name on it, probably his own.

"What do you play?" he asked. I tell him.

He tells me that my writing my name on the sheet made him really happy, given his relative... loneliness sitting around there all morning while choir peoples were making fevered pitches at prospective singers (they really were).

I leaned in closer and whispered, "Don't let them hear this, but I'm actually with the choir, and I'm not going back to them this year because I want to get a band going... that's where your club comes in. With you I may actually be able to get off the ground."

That totally made his day.

Comments

[nt-confidential.livejournal.com]

I remember those guys. I picked up some of their materials back in first year, but never got around to paying them a visit. Let me know how it goes - they do sound like a fun group, if a casual one.

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

I will remark - casual indeed... perhaps too much so, given where we have been. There are a few other classical musicians, but for the most part they don't seem to appear very often.

You and I ... would/do not fit in very well. There's a guy who's a big Frank Zappa fan that I seem to get along with musically, but that's about it. It would be very difficult to find a home for jazz in there.